The MIGHTY Dandelion Day 3-Parts and Preservation

I'm so excited, here is my first vlog!! 

As promised in the video, I made a chart on preparations, dosage and usage.

Preparations and Dosage for Internal Use:

Indicated Internal Uses:

I just LOVE the Dandelion! *smile*

What about you, have you found a new love for Dandelions?

For His Glory,

Dandelion Wine Day 2

There are MANY, MANY things you can do with Dandelions. Today I am going to share a recipe for Dandelion Wine. I have never made it before and didn't know you could. I came across this recipe in one of my herbal books, so I thought I'd try it.

Dandelion Wine

2 quarts fresh Dandelion flowers (make sure they haven't been sprayed).

2 quarts spring water

1 Orange

1 lemon (wash fruit to remove any chemical residues).

3 cups brown sugar or turbinado

1/2 pack of yeast (1 1/2 tsp)

Carefully remove any trace of stems from flowers (that will be in tomorrow's video). Place in some sort of large crock or non-metallic container. Thinly slice the orange and lemon, and add to the flowers, along with sugar. Bring water to a boil, and pour over the flowers, fruit, and sugar. Cover loosely and let set two days, stirring occasionally.

Water, sugar, dandelion flowers, orange and lemon soaking

After 2 days:

Strain the liquid out of the flowers and fruit into another crock pot style  container (mine is a crock pot).

Squeeze out with spoon.

Next add the yeast and stir until dissolved. 

With yeast.

Yeast dissolved.

Cover loosely again, and allow to ferment in a warm place for two weeks. Mine is sitting in a closet in our dinning room.


Well....that's as far as I've gotten! I will give you the rest of the recipe and will later tell you my outcome. I really wanted to try this. I mean wine from dandelions?? Crazy! I'm curious as to how it will be. Here's the last of the instructions:

Skim off any foam, and carefully pour off wine, trying not to disturb any sediment. Use immediately, or store in the refrigerator in tightly sealed bottles (not sure where I will get some). One cup of crushed fresh Red Raspberries may be used in place of the citrus.

What do you think?? Have you had dandelion wine? Will you try this recipe?


For His Glory,

The MIGHTY Dandelion Day 1

It's that time again...Dandelion season!

What?!?! You mean to tell me Dandelions are more then just an annoying weed? Yes, yes they are an AWESOME herb! I am so glad God made this "weed" persistent! 

I am devoting a week to this MIGHTY herb. Though I could certainly spend more time talking about it and sharing all it's wonderful uses.

What I want to cover:

~Benefits

~Ways to preserve

~Blog/video demos and instructions on varies ways to use them.

     -Dandelion Oil

     -Dandelion Wine

     -Dandelion Jam

     -Cooking with them

     -Tincture

     -Tea

Here is what some herbal books had to say:

The How to Herb Book:

• One of the best blood purifiers and builders available.
• High in vitamins and minerals, especially calcium.
• Contains all the nutritive salts for the blood. Dandelion restores and balances the blood so anemia that is caused by deficiencies of these blood salts disappears.
• Overweight people when losing weight can become over acidic. These acids in the blood are destroyed by dandelion.
• One of the best liver cleansers. It increases the activity of the liver and the flow of bile into the intestines.
• Increases activity of the pancreas and the spleen.
• Good for the female organs.
• Helps open urinary passages.

Has been used in the following:

Acne	Age spots
Anemia	Appetite
Arthritis	Asthma
Blood purifier	Eczema
Liver cleanser	Yellow jaundice
Low blood pressure	Weight loss

Practical Herbalism:

Dandelion is commonly thought to be one of the “bitter herbs” recommended in the Bible. Its young leaves have been gathered and eaten as a pot herb or as an addition to salads for centuries.

It has been used to aid digestion, relieve liver distress, and to treat all manner of ills from dropsy, jaundice, and kidney stones to warts and psoriasis. Culpeper states, “It is of an opening and cleansing quality, and therefore, very effectual for the obstructions of the liver, glass, and spleen. It opens the passages of the urine, both in young and old, powerfully cleanses, and doth afterwards heal them.”

Dandelion is an extremely effective diuretic, but without the common side effect of mineral depletion prevalent with diuretic drugs.

Dandelion is rich in many nutrients, particularly in bio-available minerals.

It enriches breast milk in nursing mothers, benefiting both mother and child.

The plant helps control blood pressure by reducing excess fluids in the body as well as by the presence of mannitol, a substance commonly prescribed in Europe for hypertension.

Nutritional Herbology:

Contains bitter compounds that enhance the efficiency of the body’s eliminative and detoxifying functions. These compounds help restore normal liver function, increase the production of digestive fluids and enzymes, particularly bile, increase the flow of urine and have a laxative effect. Dandelion is an excellent herbal source of sodium, iron and vitamin A.


Isn't the benefits of the Dandelion amazing?!


For His Glory,